Privacy Policy and Cookies

This Privacy Policy and Cookies explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect personal data when you access and use Geehje. We wrote this policy in clear language so readers in the United States can understand what data may be processed when using our website, why we process it, and what choices and rights may apply.

This policy applies to Geehje’s website, its pages, forms, analytics tools, advertising features, and related contact channels. It does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, or services that may be linked from our content and that have their own privacy practices.

Who we are and how to contact us

We are Geehje, an independent information portal that publishes guides, explainers, and news on employment, government assistance programs, and everyday digital tools for readers in the United States.

The website is owned and operated by:

Company name: GTECK LTDA
CNPJ: 28.505.046/0001-81
Address: R ADELINO CARDANA, 293, BETHAVILLE I/CENTRO, BARUERI, SP, Brasil

For privacy-related questions, requests, or concerns, readers may contact us through the contact page form and the official contact channels available on the site.

Privacy contact

For purposes of applicable data protection laws, we generally act as the controller of the personal data processed through our website, except where another role is expressly stated.

What data we collect

We may collect personal data and related information in the following ways.

Data you provide directly

We may collect data you choose to submit to us, such as:

  • name;
  • email address;
  • message content;
  • contact details submitted through forms;
  • correction requests, topic suggestions, and support or privacy-related communications;
  • any other information you voluntarily include in your message.

If the website offers newsletter sign-up, comments, account features, surveys, promotions, or similar functions in the future, we may also collect the information necessary to operate those features.

Data collected automatically

When you access and use our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage data, such as:

  • IP address;
  • browser type and version;
  • device type and operating system;
  • language settings;
  • approximate location derived from IP;
  • referring pages and exit pages;
  • pages viewed and time spent on pages;
  • clicks, scrolling, interactions, and navigation paths;
  • date and time of access;
  • cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers;
  • performance, diagnostics, and log data.

Data from third parties

We may receive limited information from third-party service providers and partners that support the operation of the website, such as:

  • analytics providers;
  • advertising and monetization partners;
  • hosting, security, and performance providers;
  • form or email processing tools;
  • anti-spam and fraud prevention tools.

We may also receive information when users interact with embedded content, ads, widgets, or social media features made available by third parties.

Why we process data and the legal bases we rely on

We process personal data only when we have a valid reason to do so under applicable law. Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases: consent, performance of a service or pre-contractual steps, compliance with legal obligations, and legitimate interests.

We may process data for the following purposes:

To operate and maintain the website

We use data to provide access to the website, display content properly, maintain functionality, troubleshoot issues, and ensure technical performance.

Legal bases: legitimate interests, performance of a service, legal obligation where applicable.

To communicate with readers

We use contact information and submitted messages to answer questions, respond to correction requests, handle privacy requests, and provide support related to our content or website.

Legal bases: consent, legitimate interests, performance of a service.

To improve content, usability, and performance

We use analytics and behavioral information in aggregated or statistical form to understand how readers use our website, which pages are most accessed, how users navigate the site, and how we can improve usability, organization, accessibility, and performance.

Legal bases: consent where required for non-essential cookies or analytics tools, and legitimate interests where allowed by law.

To display and measure advertising

Because our website is supported by advertisements, we may process data to show ads, distinguish ads from editorial content, measure ad performance, prevent invalid traffic, maintain reporting, and support the sustainability of the project.

Legal bases: consent where required for advertising cookies and similar technologies, legitimate interests where permitted by law, and legal obligation where applicable.

To protect security and prevent abuse

We may process data to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, unauthorized access, abuse, spam, and other harmful or unlawful activity.

Legal bases: legitimate interests, legal obligation.

To comply with legal and regulatory obligations

We may process personal data where necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, governmental requests, or to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Legal bases: legal obligation, legitimate interests.

Mandatory and optional data

Some data is necessary for the website to function or for us to respond to a request you submit. Other data is optional, including certain cookies and analytics or advertising technologies that depend on your consent where required by law. When consent is the legal basis, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies, such as local storage, tags, pixels, web beacons, scripts, and event-tracking tools, to operate the website, remember preferences, understand traffic, improve performance, and support advertising and measurement.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Similar technologies can perform related functions, such as recognizing a browser or device, storing preferences, measuring activity, or supporting content and advertising delivery.

Types of cookies we may use

Essential cookies

These cookies are necessary for core website functions, such as page navigation, security, load balancing, consent storage, and form functionality. Without them, parts of the website may not work properly.

Functional cookies

These cookies help remember choices and preferences, such as language, consent settings, and user experience options.

Analytics cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website by collecting information about page visits, traffic sources, interactions, and performance. We use this information in aggregated and statistical ways to improve the site.

Advertising cookies

These cookies may be used by advertising partners to display ads, limit repetitive ads, measure ad performance, detect invalid traffic, and, where applicable, personalize ads based on browsing behavior or inferred interests.

Social media and embedded content cookies

If we use embedded media, widgets, or social sharing features, the third-party provider may set cookies or collect data about your interaction with that content.

Google and other third parties

Third parties, including Google, may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, and understand how users interact with content and advertising. Depending on configuration, some of these tools may support personalized or non-personalized advertising.

Users may also manage certain ad preferences through Google’s ad settings and other industry opt-out tools, where available.

Consent management

Where required by law, we ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies or using similar technologies for analytics or advertising. Through our banner or consent management platform, you may be able to:

  • accept all cookies;
  • reject non-essential cookies;
  • customize your preferences;
  • later change or revoke your consent.

If we implement consent mode or similar consent signaling technologies, we may use them to communicate your preferences to participating vendors and tools.

How to manage cookies

You can usually manage cookies through:

  • our cookie banner or consent preferences tool;
  • your browser settings;
  • device settings;
  • third-party privacy and ad preference tools, when available.

Please note that blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality or your experience.

Tools and services we use

We may use third-party tools and services to operate, analyze, secure, and monetize the website. These providers may process personal data on our behalf or as independent controllers, depending on the service and context.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to better understand website traffic and user behavior, such as page visits, navigation paths, time on page, device information, and general usage patterns. This helps us improve website structure, content usefulness, and technical performance.

Depending on implementation, Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies. We may use settings intended to reduce direct identification risks, such as IP-related controls where available, but this does not make analytics data fully anonymous in all cases.

Users can manage analytics-related cookies through our consent tools and browser settings.

Microsoft Clarity

We use Microsoft Clarity to understand how visitors navigate and interact with the website, including clicks, scroll behavior, page interaction patterns, and usability signals. This helps us improve design, navigation, accessibility, and performance.

Depending on configuration, Clarity may use cookies or similar technologies and may collect technical and interaction data.

Advertising tools, including Google advertising services

Our website is supported by advertisements from different advertisers. We may use advertising technologies and monetization partners, including Google advertising products such as Google AdSense, Google Ads, or Google Ad Manager, where applicable, to display ads, measure performance, distinguish editorial content from sponsored placements, and support website operations.

These tools may process identifiers, browser information, ad interaction data, approximate location derived from IP, and other technical or usage data. Depending on settings and legal requirements, ads may be personalized or non-personalized.

We do not treat advertiser presence as editorial endorsement, and our editorial decisions are not controlled by advertisers.

Hosting, security, forms, and technical providers

We may use service providers that support hosting, content delivery, website security, spam prevention, diagnostics, backups, and contact form processing. These providers may process technical and contact-related data as needed to perform their services.

Links to third-party policies

Third-party services operate under their own privacy policies and terms. When users interact with third-party tools, ads, embedded content, or external websites, those third parties may collect and process data under their own rules.

Sharing of personal data and international transfers

We do not sell user information in the ordinary sense of exchanging personal data for money. However, depending on how applicable privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or similar concepts, certain disclosures involving advertising, analytics, or cross-context behavioral advertising technologies may be considered sharing or similar regulated activity.

We may share personal data with the following categories of recipients:

  • hosting and infrastructure providers;
  • analytics providers;
  • advertising and monetization partners;
  • security, anti-fraud, and technical support providers;
  • form, communication, and email processing providers;
  • legal, regulatory, or governmental authorities when required;
  • professional advisers when necessary for legal or operational purposes.

Because some of our service providers may operate in countries other than the country where the user is located, personal data may be transferred internationally. When this happens, we seek to use appropriate safeguards under applicable law, such as contractual protections, adequacy mechanisms where recognized, or other lawful transfer measures.

How long we retain data

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including to meet legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, security, and operational requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of data, how it was collected, and why it is processed. In general:

  • contact form submissions may be retained for as long as needed to respond and maintain a reasonable record of the communication;
  • analytics and technical logs may be retained for a limited period necessary for reporting, security, and performance analysis;
  • cookie data may remain on the device for the period defined by the cookie itself unless deleted earlier;
  • suppression or opt-out records may be retained as needed to honor your preferences and demonstrate compliance.

We may keep data longer when required by law, to resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or protect our legal rights.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you are located and which laws apply, you may have rights regarding your personal data. These may include the right to:

  • know whether we process your personal data;
  • request access to personal data we hold about you;
  • request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
  • request deletion of personal data, subject to legal exceptions;
  • request restriction of processing in certain situations;
  • object to certain processing based on legitimate interests;
  • request portability of data where applicable;
  • withdraw consent at any time where consent is the legal basis;
  • request information about categories of data collected, sources, purposes, and disclosures;
  • not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

Where applicable under U.S. state privacy laws such as CCPA/CPRA concepts, you may also have the right to request information about whether personal information is sold or shared, and to opt out of certain forms of sale, sharing, or targeted advertising as defined by law.

To exercise your rights, please contact us through the official contact channels available on the site. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests. We will respond within the time period required by applicable law.

If you are unhappy with our response, you may have the right to submit a complaint to the relevant data protection or privacy authority in your jurisdiction.

Children’s privacy

Our website is intended for a general audience and is primarily designed to provide information to adults seeking to understand employment opportunities, government assistance programs, and related practical topics.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below the minimum age established by applicable law without appropriate authorization.

If you believe a child has provided personal data to us inappropriately, please contact us so we can review the situation and, where appropriate, delete the data.

If the website is ever directed specifically to children or includes child-focused features, additional compliance measures may be required under laws such as COPPA and other applicable regulations.

Information security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These measures may include HTTPS, access controls, limited internal access, monitoring, updates, backups, and service provider safeguards.

Even so, no website, database, transmission method, or security system is completely secure. For that reason, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Automated decision-making and profiling

We do not use our editorial content to make legally significant automated decisions about users. However, some third-party advertising or analytics tools may use cookies, identifiers, or inferred interests to support ad delivery, measurement, audience segmentation, fraud detection, or similar activities.

Where advertising personalization or profiling is used, it is generally carried out by third-party platforms according to their own technologies and policies. Users may limit or disable some of these practices through cookie preferences, browser settings, device settings, and available ad preference tools.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, such as language and consent choices, personalize content and advertisements where applicable, analyze traffic, understand time on page and clicks, maintain sessions, improve performance, and support the overall user experience.

Because some of these technologies are not strictly necessary to operate the website, we request consent where required by applicable law. Our cookie banner or consent tool is intended to help users understand how cookies are used and to provide control over non-essential categories.

Advertising and partnerships

We currently display advertisements to help sustain and expand the project. These advertisements are clearly identified to reduce confusion between editorial and promotional content.

Our editorial decisions are independent and are not influenced, controlled, or endorsed by advertisers. References to products, services, providers, or platforms are provided for informational and comparative purposes only.

We may work with advertising networks, monetization partners, and, in the future, affiliate or commercial partners to support website operations. If we expand or materially change these relationships, we may update this policy to explain which partners are involved, what data may be processed for those purposes, and what controls are available to users.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy and Cookies from time to time to reflect legal, technical, operational, or business changes. When we do, we will update the effective date of the policy and, where appropriate, provide additional notice on the website or through other reasonable means.

We encourage users to review this policy periodically so they remain informed about how we process personal data.

Effective date: 06/03/2026
Last updated: 06/03/2026

We may also keep archived versions or internal records of prior versions where appropriate.

Contact and complaints

For questions, requests, or concerns about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us through the contact page form.

Privacy-related requests should include enough detail for us to understand and respond appropriately.

If you believe your rights have been violated, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent privacy or data protection authority in your location.

Applicable laws and general legal framework

We seek to align our privacy practices, where applicable, with laws and principles such as the GDPR, UK GDPR, LGPD, CCPA/CPRA, and similar privacy and data protection rules relevant to our operations and audience.

The legal bases we rely on depend on the context and may include consent, performance of a service, legal obligation, and legitimate interests, always subject to applicable law.

This policy is intended to promote transparency and does not constitute legal advice. Because privacy requirements may vary by jurisdiction and may change over time, this policy may be adjusted whenever necessary.